nooooo, hermione stay and help fix the system! anthony is a bit of an idealist in that while he believes in the system, he knows there's always room for improvement-- and good people staying within it and exposing those shortcomings as they present themselves is the absolute best way to go about change. clearly we need something where they end up in extremely long, exhausting debates that end with both of them putting their head down on a table at a bar and trying not to weep into their beers because they can't convince one another to budge, but can't stop trying because god damn it they both believe in their positions and if only they could get the other to see they actually want the same thing.